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I've bought a ticket. I'm a massive Slowdive fan obvously, but don't care much for Halstead's solo work. However, the possibility of them playing Slowdive songs together is irresistible (and they're almost certainly going to do that).

I don't think Slowdive ever had any unresolved issues and even though I like Pygmalion, they didn't really go out on top like MBV (temporarily) did. Considering that it seems like quite a bit of what consititunes Shoegaze from about 2000-onward seems to be closer to Slowdive than MBV, I'm not really missing Slowdive's sound much; especially sicne I don't think their imitators have really missed the mark quite as badly as most of MBV's clones.

though my point was more that even if the Slowdive clones' songwriting wasn't on par to the original, they generally nailed their sound pretty consistently. I don't think the same holds true for MBV, or at least not nearly as often.

Don't know Slowdive that well but I'm sure it'll be a great show. I love Spoon & Rafter, and well, anything I've heard by them. That Rachel Goswell song Coastline is lovely - really like the Ulrich Schnauss mix as well.